Executive MBA
The MBA is the prime management qualification for managers. Designed for your success, the MBA creates distinctive managers with a comprehensive knowledge of the latest business practices. This MBA gives you a great overview of the business world and enhances your knowledge and skills further. It provides much deeper understanding of the business environment and helps you to become able managers. This global gold standard management qualification provides a rigorous and challenging postgraduate business and management experience in which students develop alongside other experienced managers and business professionals to facilitate their becoming more effective managers or professionals.
The applied nature of this MBA allows executives to re-energise their careers to tackle new challenges on a local and global scale. Unlike a traditional MBA, the executive nature of the programme allows you to learn from a variety of real-life cases studies of immediate applicability to your career. Additionally, there is no final dissertation, so you can complete your MBA with an applied business project that addresses a real need of your company or plans for next business venture.
The ”Executive” format of the MBA targets more experienced executives interested in an applied approach to business administration. The “Applied Leadership” module allows students to interact with successful CEOs and Executives and will present their first-hand experience to managing a successful business. Additionally, students in the executive MBA will complete a business project that can have direct application to an existing business and/or serve to launch a new business idea.
The MBA programmes benefit greatly from the internationality derived from recruiting students from across the globe, and drawing on tutors well qualified in their field.
Learn at Switzerland’s premier private college and graduate with students from over 130 different countries and from the University of Cumbria.
12 months to 5 years
100% online via OnlineCampus (an interactive online learning environment) with intensive class discussion and collaboration.
We offer rolling admissions throughout the year. Register at any time and begin your learning journey immediately.
The University of Cumbria is ranked number 8th in the World for Quality Education by the Times Higher Education in 2020.
In a study commissioned by Hitachi Capital Invoice Finance (2020) on over 9,500,000 previous university students in the UK, the University of Cumbria is ranked in the top three higher-education institutions in the North of the UK for students who go on to start or manage a business.
Start your British Master's Degree journey with just 525 CHF (Swiss Francs) per month, an amount equivalent to approximately US$ 633 or € 557. This rate, structured over an 24-month period, amounts to a total tuition of 12600 CHF (Swiss Francs).
This all-inclusive tuition covers a wide array of university costs such as matriculation fees, online campus access, library use, and graduation charges, offering convenience with interest-free installments.
For those who can make an upfront payment of the entire tuition or a significant part of it (2,000 CHF or more), we offer the option of a fee reduction.
The University of Cumbria MBA programmes offered online in exclusive partnership with the Robert Kennedy College are Recognised Worldwide. Once you complete your studies at Robert Kennedy College, you will receive a degree from the University of Cumbria. The University of Cumbria received the University title, and degree awarding powers, from Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council. It is fully recognised by the British Government and duly listed on the United Kingdom’s Department for Business, Innovation and Skills list of recognised UK awarding institutions.
Rationale and Philosophy
The MBA has been shaped to form what the programme team believes to be a unique curriculum. It allows students to:
- Gain a UK Higher Education Institution accredited MBA.
- Study in their own time (in whatever time-zone in which they live).
- Study at their own pace (within the current period of University of Cumbria regulations for part-time study).
- Continue to live in their own country/location without disrupting family life.
- Continue to pursue their existing career without a break.
Programme Outline
The scheme has been designed to meet the aims of the online MBA in a flexible manner and can be tailored to the individual preferences of each student. The MBA requires you to complete six courses plus a final dissertation. The programme consists of the following modules:
Introductory
Not-for-credit
Induction
This is the first module of the programme which gives an orientation to the course and the online learning style. It does not carry credits, and students are encouraged to go through the material in this module at their own pace and get accustomed to the online medium.
Stage 1
120 credits - Six taught modules
Compulsory
- Organisational Behaviour
- Essentials of Risk Management
- Digital Marketing
- Applied Leadership
- Sustainable Finance
- Strategic Management
Stage 2
60 credits - Individual business project
Business Project
You will identify an appropriate project, critically selecting and applying an appropriate analytical methodology and (as necessary) data collection method(s) to your chosen topic. You will demonstrate a rigorous understanding of the theory and literature relevant to the issues under investigation, and you will also be able to reflect critically on how the project contributes to the understanding of the major themes of the MBA.
Module Descriptions
There are no average courses within our MBA programme. We are bound to provide an exceptional learning experience, and there is no better way to achieve this aim than with outstanding courses. They have been carefully crafted by experienced professors and are all meant to make you a more successful and efficient manager.
There are no old-fashioned exams. Instead you are given real-life case studies and essays, which allow you to think critically about your company and your own career. All this might seem too glossy but there is one catch: we do not accept average candidates. Only individuals as outstanding as our values can find their way toward admission at the Robert Kennedy College.
Induction
Not-for-credit module
A not-for-credit induction module will be the starting point of the programme. The induction process is designed to familiarise you with the programme design, requirements and resources, as well as with the way online interaction, learning and grading will take place. After the induction you should be familiar with academic life, including academic writing, library services and library access, OnlineCampus access, and academic support services.
Organisational Behaviour
The aims of this module are to provide an introduction to core concepts of the way people are managed in organisations. To that end it will offer opportunities for study by prospective as well as experienced managers, to consider the history and development of management thinking and theory, using modern ideas to assess and evaluate their own personal experiences of organisations and dynamics. The introduction to the module will act as bedrock upon which other managerial ideas and processes can be developed later in the course.
Essentials of Risk Management
The
aim of this module is to critically explore the range of concepts and
functions of risk management and associated practices within the
business sector, evaluating how effective risk management processes and
practices are and how risk can be addressed and minimised in business in
the global context (although there may be some bias towards UK practice
in particular with respect to case study discussions, the programme
should be considered global in terms of its coverage of risk).
Digital Marketing
The primary aim of this module is to provide the student with a deep understanding of the issues facing digital marketing managers, by examining the strategically significant issues facing e-commerce such as environment and online marketplace, consumer behaviour and digital influence. The aim is to actively develop students’ knowledge of key marketing and digital marketing theories and apply this knowledge to strategic issues based on current research and industry practice, and facilitate the effective strategic decision making of a digital marketing professional.
Applied Leadership
The primary aim of this module is to explore concepts and theories of leadership and organisational culture and to provide the student with a deep understanding of their application in the current international business setting, while also exploring teams, teamworking and how leadership may be exercised in teams.
Sustainable Finance
This module provides you with a comprehensive introduction to the field of sustainable finance. It offers analyses of the environmental, social, ethical and governance dimensions of different financial service sectors, and evaluates related initiatives from both private and public-benefit perspectives. The financial services addressed include: Assets, Debts, Insurance, Derivatives, and Currencies.
Strategic Management
This module aims to develop your knowledge and understanding across a range of appropriate topic areas, to undertake an analysis of inherent strategic complexity with a view to selecting appropriate conceptual ‘tools’ for strategic development. The module will develop your awareness of the complex inter-relationship of organisational problems and develop your critical ability to select and ‘argue’ for alternative approaches emanating from conceptual alternative dimensions in relation to organisational problems and strategy. In addition the module will develop your ability to select complementary approaches and/or techniques appropriate for a stated problem and apply them to resolve or improve the problem. The module seeks to extend your current cognitive and transferable skills applicable across the manager’s role. These include self-appraisal, problem-solving, communication, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
Aims and Outcomes
The overall aims of the Programme are to:
- further develop relevant business, management, leadership and organisation knowledge, both academic and professional, in line with postgraduate standards/benchmarks;
- develop critical reflection skills and engagement with organisational and professional theory to understand and, where appropriate, challenge existing individual and organisational perspectives and practices;
- develop, and where appropriate apply, new knowledge to add value by enhancing organisational capability;
- develop understanding of an organisation’s strategic focus and environment, and the impact of the inter-relationship between the organisation’s resources and clients in the evolving global business environment;
- develop commitment to continuous personal and professional development, independence and reflective learning;
- develop particular expertise and understanding in the fields of leadership, business and management.
Successful students will be able to:
- engage in effective individual research and demonstrate the ability to understand and apply management theory, and to make, when necessary, sound judgements under conditions of uncertainty;
- exhibit improved independent research and time management skills, having undertaken a substantial self-managed research project which involved application of a variety of management and research practices, and demonstrates expertise and understanding of issues in leadership, business and management;
- demonstrate enhanced interpersonal and team skills, through working with others from different industry or cultural backgrounds;
- continue to reflect on their existing experiences, and learn from and build on the experience of others;
- develop into modern, well rounded and outward looking managers with a high concern for customers and colleagues, capable of taking responsibility for themselves, their people, their areas of responsibility and their organisation.